Patient Demonstration Videos

Mirror Visual Feedback Therapy

Treatment Sessions Using Mirror Visual Feedback with Andrew T. Austin

Member Restricted: For research and development purposes only.

Phantom limb pain treatment. These client sessions were filmed as part of an ongoing development project in conjunction with a university research team and associated clinicians.

These webpages have five complete mirror therapy sessions that were professionally filmed in a studio. All patients were volunteers, of whom four had upper limb amputation and one lower limb amputation.

*Newaddition: 90 minute presentation on the mirror box and a demonstration of suggestion and metaphor in treatment of PLP. Filmed live in Winter Park, Colorado in 2009.

*New addition: Over 3 hours of lecture material from the presentation, "Effective Assessment and Treatment of Phantom Limb Pain." Recorded in London 18th June 2014.

- comprehensive assessment of phantom limb pain
- application of the mirror box to alter phantom limb perception
- pain relief using the mirror box
- sensory remapping (phantom hand to face)
- some of the more unusual phenomena with phantoms (telescoping, illogical positioning of the phantom)
- use of IEMT to deal with memories of trauma

If you would like access to these videos, please email your credentials and request to Andrew T. Austin at: NLP@hotmail.co.uk

*Patients (UK only):We are actively seeking patients with phantom limb pain and related phenomena for a number of brain scanning studies and also for filmed treatment sessions. Please get in contact if you would like to participate.